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Definition of Ague tree

Ague tree
Ague A"gue, n. [OE. agu, ague, OF. agu, F. aigu, sharp, OF. fem. ague, LL. (febris) acuta, a sharp, acute fever, fr. L. acutus sharp. See Acute.] 1. An acute fever. [Obs.] ``Brenning agues.' --P. Plowman. 2. (Med.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. 3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague. 4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. --Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. Ague fit, a fit of the ague. --Shak. Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. --Gay. Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

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- coastal marshes of England, mortality from "marsh fever" or "tertian ague" (ague: via French from medieval Latin acuta (febris), acute fever) was comparable...
- Account of the Cause and Cures of Agues. Robert Talbor (1682) The English Remedy: Talbor's Wonderful Secret for Curing of Agues and Feavers. Thompson, C. J...
- front of Mel Smith's Sir Toby, getting his sword caught in a branch of a tree and being kicked in the groin during his duel with "Cesario" (Imogen Stubbs)...
- Edward. "An Account of the Success of the Bark of the Willow in the Cure of Agues". The Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0033. Retrieved 5 January 2022...
- identifiers Plasmodium malariae Wikidata: Q133969 Wikispecies: Plasmodium malariae AFD: Plasmodium_malariae GBIF: 7655747 NCBI: 5858 Open Tree of Life: 352307...
- Explorer sailed into Great Bay, where the crew sought the s****afras (or "ague tree"), then considered an elixir of life with great medicinal value in treating...
- ITIS: 30069 MichiganFlora: 1397 NatureServe: 2.160760 NCBI: 137117 Open Tree of Life: 1008013 Plant List: kew-2822253 PLANTS: GEQU2 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni...
- and a tonic, and take a compound infusion of it for fever, smallpox and ague. They also use an infusion of the bark as a wash for a sore tongue. The Lenape...
- ISSN 2169-9313. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 95. Philpotts & Ague 2009, p. 94. Philpotts & Ague 2009, equation 4.4, p.94. Philpotts & Ague 2009, pp. 79–80. Johnson...
- willow bark to cure intermittent fevers, or 'ague'. Stone had 'accidentally' tasted the bark of a willow tree in 1758 and noticed an astringency reminiscent...